Another one of those "Help me with my school list" Posts

[DocInTheDesert]

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I have some uneven stats with decent (not spectacular) ECs including research, medical volunteering, nonmedical volunteering, shadowing, scribing, hobbies, etc. My undergraduate institution has a reputation of being a party school so idk how that'll affect my application.

• Cumulative AMCAS GPA: 4.00
• Science AMCAS GPA: 4.00
• MCAT: 513 (90%)
• Was born in Romania, immigrated to the US at the age of 6.
• White male

I'm having a hard time coming up with a good school list because I keep on considering yield protection and for a lot of the schools I'm in their 90th percentile for GPA, but 10th percentile for MCAT.

Here's what I got so far:

1. UA – Phoenix (Public)
2. UA – Tucson (Public)
3. University of Miami
4. Medical College of Wisconsin
5. Creighton University
6. Emory University
7. Rush University
8. Thomas Jefferson University
9. Lewis Katz
10. University of Rochester
11. Wake Forest University
12. Western Michigan University
13. University of Pittsburgh
14. Dartmouth University
15. Hofstra University
16. University of Cincinnati (Public)
    
17. University of Iowa (Public)
18. Ohio State University (Public)
19. University of Vermont (Public)
20. University of Colorado (Public)
21. Albert Einstein College of Medicine
22. Quinnipiac University
23. Tufts University
    
24. Eastern Virginia Medical School (Public)
25. Saint Louis University
26. New York Medical College
27. Penn State University
28. University of Missouri – Kansas City (Public)
29. Brown University
30. George Washington University
31. Georgetown University
32. Oakland University (Public)
33. Mayo – Minnesota
34. Mayo – Arizona
35. Stanford University
36. USC
37. Yale
38. Weill Cornell
39. Boston University
    
40. University of Utah (Public)

 

[Faha]

Where is your state of residence?

 

[DocInTheDesert]

AZ

 

[Faha]

You have a good list and should receive several interviews.

 

[Save a life]

You will definitely receive a bunch of interviews with those stats and applying to 40 schools. Assuming of course you have some decent EC's such as shadowing and volunteering.

 

[DocInTheDesert]

Should I consider removing some of the schools or is this a pretty good number?

 

[Faha]

Should I consider removing some of the schools or is this a pretty good number?

You could remove schools such as Utah and Missouri as they prefer their own residents. This is also true for Iowa, Colorado and Ohio State though these do accept more non residents.

 

[DocInTheDesert]

You could remove schools such as Utah and Missouri as they prefer their own residents. This is also true for Iowa, Colorado and Ohio State though these do accept more non residents.

Will do! Thanks for the help.